Friday, October 05, 2012

Poem for Friday and Bubble Factory

The trees are in their autumn beauty,The woodland paths are dry,Under the October twilight the waterMirrors a still sky;Upon the brimming water among the stonesAre nine-and-fifty swans.

The nineteenth autumn has come upon meSince I first made my count;I saw, before I had well finished,All suddenly mountAnd scatter wheeling in great broken ringsUpon their clamorous wings.

I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,And now my heart is sore.All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,The first time on this shore,The bell-beat of their wings above my head,Trod with a lighter tread.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,They paddle in the coldCompanionable streams or climb the air;Their hearts have not grown old;Passion or conquest, wander where they will,Attend upon them still.

But now they drift on the still water,Mysterious, beautiful;Among what rushes will they build,By what lake's edge or poolDelight men's eyes when I awake some dayTo find they have flown away?

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My Thursday was pretty uneventful. Paul worked from home, so the cats spent a lot of time pacing back and forth between my computer and his, hoping one of us would decide it was time to feed them. I made the horrifying discovery that I can't upload NEF files to Flickr, and I have dozens that have not been converted to JPGs, though I shoot pretty much all quickie travel photos as JPGs, so I tracked down a NEF-to-JPG program to start working on that (I'm more than halfway through 2010, past the baby bird.)

Adam had a cross country meet today that was originally not on the schedule because he was supposed to run on Tuesday but it was canceled due to weather; he ran a 5K in less than 19 minutes, so he was very happy. We put on Glee late and couldn't figure out why we were watching at all, then put on Elementary, which again I enjoyed; I am never going to adore a straight-up mystery show, it's just not my genre, but I like the actors and the pacing. Some Bubble Factory photos from Ellicott City: